Joely Richardson

"HE is a freak, a demagogue and the most dangerous man this country has ever known!"

No, this is not a member of Congress, or the Senate, or a TV pundit bashing President Barack Obama.

It was William Howard Taft attacking his former friend Theodore Roosevelt, during Teddy's attempt to run for a third term in 1912. Political rhetoric has always been over the top.

P.S. If conservatives want the rest of the world to "respect and fear" the United States more, maybe they should stop encouraging all-out hysteria over everything from Ebola to ISIS. The sky is cloudy, as ever, but it is not falling. We have become a nation of Chicken Littles, hyped by a...

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"HE is a freak, a demagogue and the most dangerous man this country has ever known!"
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